Cookham Wood Secure Training Centre

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what  (a) injuries and  (b) injuries requiring external medical treatment were sustained during restraint incidents on girls held in Medway secure training centre in each month since 1998.

Crispin Blunt: The YJB has collected data since April 2007 showing the number of injuries in each category, but this data is not broken down by gender.
	The definitions for these categories are:
	 Minor injury requiring medical treatment
	This includes cuts, scratches, grazes, blood noses, concussion, serious bruising and sprains where medical treatment is given by a member of staff or a nurse. Treatment could include cleaning and dressing wounds, providing pain relief, and monitoring symptoms by a health professional (e.g. in relation to concussion). This includes first aid administered by a staff member.
	 Serious injury requiring hospital treatment
	This includes serious cuts, fractures, loss of consciousness and damage to internal organs. Where 24-hour health care is available the young person may remain onsite. At other establishments, the young person will be taken to a local hospital. Treatment will reflect the more serious nature of the injuries sustained and may include stitches, re-setting bones, operations and providing overnight observation.
	It is currently a contractual requirement for any young person within an STC who has been restrained to be visited by a registered nurse within thirty minutes following the use of restraint.
	The latest data available is for 2008-09 and is provided in the table as follows. The data from 2009-10 will be available following the publication of the 2009-10 annual YJB Workload statistics.
	These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and may be subject to change over time.
	
		
			  Number of injuries sustained during restraint incidents by severity of injury 
			   Minor injury-requiring medical treatment  Serious injury-requiring hospital treatment 
			 April 2007 7 0 
			 May 2007 8 0 
			 June 2007 4 0 
			 July 2007 13 0 
			 August 2007 2 0 
			 September 2007 3 0 
			 October 2007 3 0 
			 November 2007 7 0 
			 December 2007 4 0 
			
			 January 2008 7 0 
			 February 2008 4 0 
			 March 2008 5 0 
			 April 2008 1 0 
			 May 2008 2 0 
			 June 2008 3 0 
			 July 2008 1 0 
			 August 2008 1 0 
			 September 2008 3 0 
			 October 2008 4 0 
			 November 2008 4 0 
			 December 2008 3 0 
			
			 January 2009 1 0 
			 February 2009 4 0 
			 March 2009 7 0